Tag: Hemingway

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

– Ernest Hemingway

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

– Ernest Hemingway

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

– Ernest Hemingway

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

– Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

—Ernest Hemingway

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety nine pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the waste-basket.

—Ernest Hemingway

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

—Ernest Hemingway